If you prefer viewing your Gmail account in basic HTML, you'll soon be out of luck. Google is removing Gmail's Basic HTML view and replacing it with the Standard view across the board in January 2024.

Update: You may be here because you heard Google is “sunsetting Gmail” this year, as a fast-spreading hoax online has it. The hoax purports to show an email from ...

You can make Gmail check email faster by setting the client to basic HTML view, which loads faster but does not support features like chat, rich formatting, spell check, or contact editing. Setting ...